Week 355 was posted by Charanjit Chana on 2024-08-17.
For a long time, past the point where I could use Aperture and when I ultimately used my iPhone more for photography more than my DSLR, I found that the 'brilliance' option in the Photos apps was great at bringing photos to life. It seemed to bring some vibrancy and clarity to photos and made it a great starting point to then go on and make more changes.
This continued until I began using Photomator for editing RAW photos in my iPad. I had edited been editing RAW photos in the Photos app and did rely on the 'brilliance' filter. When I moved to Photomator for RAW photos from my DSLR, I found I actually got more control over the style of a photo without that option and it opened me up a little more creatively.
And now I haven’t touched the brilliance option in a long while. Even non-RAW iPhone photos can be made to be vibrant (if they’re not already) but adjusting a bunch a of settings. So now I use the Photos app for regular photos and Photomator for RAW photos. For the latter that means no 'brilliance' option at all which I think is fine and for the former that means I can use it if I want to.
Do you edit photos before sharing them? Do you use the brilliance option?
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